Wan–Sun Hong

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Wan–Sun Hong is the chief investment officer of the National Pension Fund Investment Office (NPS), which manages the National Pension Fund of Korea (NPF). He took over at the helm in November of 2013. He succeeded Lee Chan-woo who exited the position in October of that year. With over US$ 430 billion in assets under management, the NPS is one of the largest public investors in the world and is currently only outranked by a handful of pensions in terms of size.

The NPS has been making strategic shifts into expanding its operations abroad and making significant additions to the size of its investment staff. Wan-Sun Hong will be responsible for diversifying investments outside of Korea in the next few years, and has already done a great job maintaining NPS’s steady growth trajectory. Hong graduated with a degree in Economics from Hanyang University and has held senior positions at Hana Bank, Allianz Asset Management.